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Offering extraordinary insight into the prolific careers of Dubuffet, Paul Klee, and Fernand Léger, alongside iconic examples by Alberto Giacometti, Alexander Calder, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso, the masterworks which comprise The Collection not only trace art history but foretell it.
Oct 21, 2022 · Solinger’s painting was the earliest, the flattest, and most conspicuously on the threshold of figuration and abstraction; by far the most adventurous. Checklist from the exhibition Picasso: Five Master Works, 1958, Kootz Gallery, New York, in which Solinger’s Femme dans un fauteuil was included.
Sep 29, 2022 · Focused on 20th-century art, Solinger amassed a collection of an estimated 150 works that also included work by Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Franz Kline, and Wassily Kandinsky, among others.
- Angelica Villa
Nov 16, 2022 · The David M. Solinger Collection of premodern art reveals a distinctively American curiosity about the universality of human forms and materiality that transcend cultural boundaries. He was among the first American collectors to explore these connections, bringing Mesoamerican artworks into a dialogue of great artistic traditions.
- Stacy Goodman
Sep 29, 2022 · Solinger, who died in 1996, acquired the majority of his postwar art in the 1950s and most of the works he purchased remained in the collection until now, offering a rare glimpse of how an earlier generation of collectors went about their business.
During the course of his lifetime, he gifted many works to a variety of leading institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum and – of course – the Whitney Museum.
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Art collection. Solinger collected 20th century art and owned works by Klee, Dubuffet, Giacometti, Leger, Miro, Kline, de Kooning, Soulages and Kandinsky as well as a 1927 Picasso, donating many to local museums. Personal life. Solinger was married twice.
